Syntax of Spanish

Name: Syntax of Spanish
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ISBN: 9780521576840

ISBN-10: 0521576849

ISBN-13: 9780521576840

Edition: 2001

Authors: Karen Zagona, J. Bresnan, D. J. Lightfoot, I. Roberts, N. V. Smith

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Clear and well-organised, this textbook is an introduction to Spanish syntax, which assumes no prior knowledge of current theory. Beginning with a descriptive overview of the major characteristics of the grammar, it goes on to describe facts about Spanish, such as its word order, notions of subject, direct object, auxiliary verb and so on. The book combines traditional grammatical description with perspectives gained from recent research in the Principles and Parameters framework. It also presents useful theoretical notions such as semantic roles, Case, and Predication. Accessibly written, the book gives just enough background so as to allow the reader to understand the lines of…

Book details

List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Karen Zagona is Associate Professor of Linguistics and adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington. She is author of Verb Phrase Syntax: A Parametric Study of English and Spanish (1988), editor of Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages (1995), and co-editor, with Ivonne Bordelois and Heles Contreras, of Generative Studies in Spanish Syntax (1986).



Preface


Symbols and abbreviations



Overview of the grammar



Introduction



General characteristics of the syntax



The subject constituent



The predicate constituent



Main clauses



Subordinate clauses



Syntactic dialects



The Noun Phrase



Introduction



The distribution of argument NPs



Predicative NPs



The constituents of NP



Determiners of argument NPs



Pre- and post-determiners



Specifiers of predicative NPs



Constituent order within NP



Summary



The Verb Phrase



Introduction



The distribution of VP



The external argument of VP



Complements of V: prepositional complements vs. adjuncts



Complements: direct object DPs



Indirect objects



Complements of "unaccusative" verbs



Summary



VP-related functional categories



Introduction



VP-adverbs and the verb/tense relation



Auxiliary verbs, tense and aspect



Clitics



Negation



Summary



Subjects, topics, and declarative constituent order



Introduction



The problem of "free" subject order



Discourse roles: Focus and Topic



[Topic] movement to the specifier of IP



Dislocated Topics



Subject order and the NS parameter



Summary



A'-movement and X movement through COMP



Introduction



Wh-movement



(Contrastive) Focus



Other A'-movements



Head movement to (and through) COMP



Summary


References


Index